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McCanns to reveal 'aged' pictures of missing Maddie on Oprah Winfrey show

«According to reports in the US newspapers, Winfrey and Walters have each pledged £1 million in an attempt to get the couple in front of the TV cameras. However, it looks like the McCanns will not be persuaded. Says the couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell: "We are not in the market for selling Kate and Gerry’s story to the highest bidder. And we are not impressed by big names. We talk to media from all over the world." - 21 July 2008»

By Rod Chaytor

PICTURES of what Madeleine McCann looks like now are to be revealed on Oprah Winfrey's talk show.

Her parents Kate and Gerry will appear on the US programme, which will be broadcast on the weekend of the second anniversary of her disappearance on May 3.

They will fly to Chicago next week to record the show.

Some recording for the one hour special has already taken place and more will follow next week at the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington.

The US charity, have produced the images of how Madeleine would look two years on from her 2007 disappearance at an Algarve holiday apartment.

The "age progression" pictures show her as they believe she looks now, aged five.

The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "Kate and Gerry have seen the pictures and they are extremely pleased with them.

"They would not be doing this if they didn't think these pictures genuinely showed how their missing daughter would look today.

"The Oprah show is seen by millions in the United States and worldwide and they hope these age progressed pictures will lead to the crucial sighting which will bring their daughter home."

Oprah has been asking Kate and Gerry to appear since Madeleine vanished.

Platform

They felt it inappropriate while they continued to be suspects in her disappearance.

But, Mitchell added: "There are a number of messages they now want to get out there.

"It was felt Oprah provided an appropriate platform." A separate reconstruction will be shown on Channel 4 on May 7.

Kate and Gerry McCann will appear on Oprah Winfrey's chatshow as they bid to keep alive the search for missing Madeleine.

The couple will unveil new computergenerated images of the youngster showing what she would look like now.

The one-hour special with the American TV queen will be broadcast early next month to mark the second anniversary of her disappearance.

Their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said last night: "Kate and Gerry see the show as a very important opportunity to reach a global audience and it's a significant step in the hunt for Madeleine.

"It's seen by millions in the US and worldwide and they hope these pictures will lead to the crucial sighting that will bring their daughter home." Doctors Kate and Gerry, both, 40, of Rothley, Leics, have already shot a segment of the show in the UK. They fly to Chicago next week for further filming.

Some footage will be shot at the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington DC.

The Government-backed charity has produced the new pictures of Madeleine, who would have turned six next month.

Mr Mitchell added: "Kate and Gerry have seen the pictures and they are extremely pleased with them."

He said Oprah had previously tried to quiz the couple but he explained: "It was felt, in the immediate aftermath of Madeleine's disappearance, that a celebrity-based show was not the image they wished to put forward. But life has moved on and it is now felt it will benefit the search."

On May 7, Channel 4 will also screen a reconstruction of the youngster's disappearance in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.

How strange that the parents of a little British girl who went missing in Europe are to appear on Oprah's show in the USA. Just how will appearing in the US of A help find Madeleine? Did they not say only a few weeks ago that they needed to go back and focus on Portugal. Now if I was a cynic I would think this was all about money, but surely not.

It is a big risk.Oprah got to hear about David Payne.And to watch Amaral's documentary before she receives the McCanns.Maybe Tony Bennett can get contact with her, sending her the videos.Or Duarte Levy SOSmaddie.Or you, dear Joana, Oprah got to know it.

"The Oprah show is seen by millions in the United States and worldwide and they hope these age progressed pictures will lead to the crucial sighting which will bring their daughter home."

Oh yeah? being starlets on a SHOW will bring Madeleine back will it?Ah....may be I have mmissed somefink: Madeleine is in the US of course....and showing the pics of her will help....yea....its sickening.They carry on showing NO respect for the child,selling her once more to a vast audience who does NOT believe them.They are very,very SICK people

If anyone on this site believes Oprah Winfrey will conduct an honest and open discussion with the McCanns then you are all dillusional.

Winfrey is also in the "circle". Her job - as a host to a vast audience - is to create a diversion from what's happening in the real world. This is why she gets so many viewers so think again people. Do you honestly think the McCanns would dare go on Oprah if it wasn't already sewn up? Do you think those two idiots would risk more than what they have already?

Oprah is perfect for those two gutless child neglectors and that is why they will be appearing. If any of you know how media entertainment works you will know it is all a stage; a stage to sell advert space to the corporates and sell nonsense to the already stupid-ass public.

So Kate McCann couldn't go to Portugal for the recent filming of their version of events because she allegedly wasn't up to it, but she can fly to the U.S.A and appear on a major television show. Much bigger money on offer from Oprah, obviously! And the McCanns probably think they will get a sympathetic hearing from the Americans. The reaction in Portugal wasn't exactly welcoming.

This show have nothing to do with Madeleine and everything to do with her parents and they ultrajous need of been in the stage all the time. They will cash in, in a show which hapens miles away from the place where she disapeared. And the circus still going on with new acts and new characters coming in: Football players, Business mans, J K Rollings, The Pope, Mrs Bush, Ophrah. Who will be next: Obama? Dalai Lama? How Pathetic are this two, believing that there still people looking for Madeleine and believing on an abducted story? Nobody is looking for Madeleine anymore. We all believe she died two years ago, but we are watching very close this two pathetic parents, just to see how far they go with that story and how deep they fall. Now they are planing to show an updated picture of Madeleine. This have a so bad taste that only fits in a ghost hunting programme. Are they planning to show us how Maddie looks like, in twenty years, on her supposedly weding, her first baby? Maybe... if they can still cashing in. In a time when must countrys and must people are facing a economic crise, this two create a new businness, a new job very well payed: Careless parents they just need to get ride of a child and start a story with lots of characters and some money to spend with this characters. Et voila a easy way to pay credit cards, houses, holidays, VIP trips. They are so sick....

One million pounds each, for an interview with the McCanns?An interview in the USA, a country where there are more children abductions than dust in the air?Come on, I am tolerant and I'm always prepared for concessions but this is a bit too much.

The MCCanns are absolutely right to go to Oprah because millions of people will be watching and seeing Madeline's photo. Madeleine needs to be found and brought home. The MCcanns are doing all they can to make sure that people all over the world remember Madeleine and help to find her.I'm sure that Oprah will be great with the McCanns as she is always sensible and kind.I'm looking forward to the show. So are millions of people who love Madeleine and support the McCanns.Ameral can't even get close to that kind of audience.The Mccanns deserve only the best. They have suffered enough. They need their Madeliene back.

Try to read about the hysperical personality. Both have a lot of it.They ask for attention all the time, they need to be the centre of the world.Let them be.Finally they became something in this life.I wonder what Gerry's colleagues feel for this couple.They must detest them.Even Tapas 7 must have difficulties in accepting this couple.

I'm absolutely sure the McCanns would not go on the Oprah show unless they were positive that they would be given a sympathetic hearing. They wouldn't put themselves in a position of being cross-examined about awkward matters, although some seemingly awkward questions may be asked just so they can spread their saccharine versions of what happened. The findings of the dogs? Easily explained. The inconsistencies? Easily explained. The lies? Easily explained. The political interference? Easily explained. If you're a McCann, that is. And don't forget, they jumped on the Amber Alert bandwagon even though it wouldn't have been relevent in Madeleine's case, so they will no doubt bring that up and expect praise for it, too.

Ohhh myyyy gooddddthe lot of you get some respect please.... Your all sat spreading your mallicious thoughts on your VERSION of events you dont no nothig have you even sat and thought you could be wrong and it isnt nothing to do with maddies parents that poor poor womrn has lost a child doesnt know if she alive dead warm or eaten or even getting used in trafficing raped and tortured to wotk in gypsy camps come on the thoughts in that womens head all because she had put her children to bed on holiday safe and sleep and went with friends for a few evening drubks im pretty sure gate knows qhat she has done wrong and doesnt mean she need low disrespectyl people like yourseld judjing her actions SORT IT OUT